It’s been five days, nine hours, 12 minutes and 34…35…36…seconds… 39…40… since my daughter left for college. I cannot believe she’s going to college. I mean, wasn’t it just a couple years ago she was playing dress-up and thinking boys were icky? Even though she still plays … [Read more...]

Sure, I went to school and somehow along the way got a four-year degree. Like most college students pursuing an academic goal, I had to survive various lab sciences, English courses, history surveys and even a quick test on our state government. … [Read more...]

Our family is full of great sayings: that and a nickel gets you a cup of coffee: Get ready – hold your teeth: Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see. After my airplane stopped at the debark gate, an announcement told there’d be a delay in deplaning. So, I … [Read more...]

For the last 20 years, I have been self-employed as a freelance ... well, anything: writer, mediator, purchaser, project manager, director of marketing. My office is equally flexible and includes my house, my yard, Barnes and Noble Café, dressing rooms, wherever. Nonetheless, … [Read more...]

Hubbie dropped me off at the Super Hardware Store because I wanted to buy some paint for a project I was working on. Yes, a hardware store. If they sold paint at a boutique or bookstore, we would have gone there, of course. So I'm in the store and Hubbie goes to wait for me in … [Read more...]